Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

On July 1, 1930, the observatory officially began operations. The team made their first moving images of the moon that same day. Shortly after the construction of Tower One, the McMaths and Judge ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the ...

The nineteenth century home, located at 1 Observatory Circle, is on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, which serves as a hub for astronomical research on all things in the sea, on land and ...

It has already put on an incredible show as the third brightest comet ever observed by NASA's space-based solar observatory SOHO and has even been imaged by keen astrophotographers in broad daylight.

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- A celestial body recently discovered by a Chinese observatory has been confirmed as a comet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Astronomers at the Purple ...

The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured by a weather station at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii ... in global surface temperatures to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.

Tilbrook says ATLAS is the observatory where the comet was discovered, the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System," while the "2024" refers to the year it was discovered. "The first ...